Volume 89.
RALEIGH, N. C; WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1893.
Number 4.
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Our Boards for 1892-'93.
1 BOARD OF MISSIONS AHD SUNDAY-SCHOOLS
LOCATED AT RALEIGH.
J C Scarborough, ChalrmanfC Durham, Cor
Secretary; B Broughton, w n race, u M AI
in. C T feailev. T H Brlees. J M neck. J N Hold
tog, W N Jones, J D Bou shall, Q W Banderlln. R
R Overbv, J M Brougbton, J D Hufham, J C
Birdsong, A L Ferrall, L O Lougee, W G Up
cbnrch, f W Blake. J II Alford, W II Holloway,
J W Carter, C B Edward, T E Bkinner, E McK
Goodwin, J J Hall, W R Owaltney, N B Cobb. M
T Norris, J B Boone, J B Martin, J CCaddell, F
P Hobgond, J O Ellington, C J Hunter, C W Car-
;-mt J M TTnltnmnn T II Ptitehard.
" Anson and Richmond Association, J W WiM-
man and L Johnson: Asbe and Alleghany, James
EUer; Atlantic, J H Edwards and J C Whitly;
Alexander, D w t'ooi; ueuian, u a. Konuaeer;
Brier Creek, W A Myers: Brushy Mountain, R A
Spainhour; Caldwell, J V McCall; Cedar Creek,
J O Fisher j Central, r A Dunn: Catawba River,
' Samuel Huffman; Cape Fear and Columbus. EW
. Wooten and Dr AW Kennon ; Chowan, E F Ayd
' lett: Eastern, L R Carroll and O P Meeks; Elkin,
1 8 Kllby; Flat River, R H Marsh: Green River,
C B Justice; King's Mountain, H FSchenck; Lib
erty, James Smith; Little River, J A Campbell;
.MecKienourg aoa uaofUTUs, J uretnam; mi aiod.
. 0 L Stringneld ; Robeson, E K Proctor, Jr: Sandy
. Creek, O T Edwards; South Fork'. J Bridges;
' South Yadkin, J BrHolian; Stanly, E F Ed
. dings; South Atlantic, J M Long; Tar River, C
M Cooka. R D Fleinine and R-T Vann: Three
Forks, E F Jones; Union, A C Davis; West
Chowan, J B Brewer; Yadkin, J G Burrus; Mont
gomery, W M BostlCK; Uladen, w a JUeemn.
BOARD OF BDPCATIOir LOCATED AT WAKB
.'. FOREST.
W L Potat, President: W R Gwaltney, Cor
Secretary; W B Royal, D W Allen, K Brewer, J
M Brewer, J B Carlyle, L Chapell, P A Dunn, W
B Dunn, W H Edwards, P W Johnson, W C Lank
ford. LR Mills. J B Powers. F M Purefoy. Win
' Royal, C E Taylor, J F Lannoau, Elder John
Aiitcueu, u is ltoyai, w J Ferreu. ur u no wier,
E W Bites and J C Masks.
BOARD OF MINISTERS RELIEF LOCATED AT
DURHAM.
W A Albright, PresldentC A Woodson, Cor
Secretary; W C Tyree, H A Reams, T E Cheek. J
L Markham, T H Pritehard, F P Hobgood and W
N Jones.
TRUSTEES OF THOMAS VI LLC ORPHANAGE LO
CATED AT THOMAS VTLLE.
John Mitchell, President; A G McManaway,
Secretary; J C Scarborough, C Durham, W K
Gwaltney, Thomas Carrick, F P Hobgood, Noah
Biggs, E Frt, K D Fleming, J L Markham, T H
Pritehard, W T Faircloth, J H Lasriter. A J Mon
tague, H F Schenck, John Brewer and J D Bre
, vard. .
TRUSTEES OF WAKE FOREST COLLEGE LOCATED
AT WAKE FOREST.
J M Heck, President; R E Royall, Secretary;
C T Bailey, Noah Biggs, G W Blount, John B
BrewerJI A Brown, N B Cobb, CM Cooke, W E
Daniel, H C Dockery, P A Dunn, C Durham, W
T Fab cloth, A R Foushee, N Y Gulley, W B
Gwaltney, F P Hobgood, J N Holding, J D Huf
hsm, C J Hunter, R H Marsh, W J McLendon,
John Mitchell, W II MitcheU, E S Moore, R R
. Overby, T H Pritehard, E K Proctor, Jr, J B
Richardson, J W F Rogers, G W Banderlln, J C
Scarborough, T E Skinner, J H Tucker, W G
Upchurch, W W Vass.
- In tbi North American Review for July,
. Dr. Briggs, in an article on "The Future of
' Presbyterianism in the United States," after
setting forth his views and showing how te
auu otuer men nave oeen uarasseu luiuugu
lack of intelligence and denominational
usurpation .of power and filibustering on the
part of the assemblies daring the past cen
tury; declares that he will remain in the
church. His reason for sa' doing is that the
General Assembly that convicted him is not
a permanent body; has no continuous lite;
"is composed of the representatives of, the
presbyteries who meet together for a few
days and then, dissolve forever." He says,
I'One, two, or three General Assemblies in
succession may usurp power, may do great
injustice, may make breaches in the const!'
A A m . m m m ' . 1 A 1 " .
tuiion oi tne cnurcn. dus au inese wrongs
may be righted by a fourth or a fifth, or any
subsequent Assembly." Therefore he and
his minority are justified in Remaining in
the chnrch-to wait nntil an Assembly may,
be appointed that will please them and dis please
the present majority; or in the words
of Dr. Briggs, continuing f the struggle for
truth and for right." To us it seems that'
such a struggle can only result, in dissatis
faction to one side or the other, and to final
division and error.
All this may seem welt to Dr. Briggs and
the Presbyterians, and we certainly hope
that God will terminate all well, but we are
glad from the bottom of our hearts that we
have a belief and a religion which is not in
the hands of mortals to change, however
unintelligent or learned, or however great
their majority or minority. r
The recent movement to hold a Sunday
school chautauqua of North Carolina Bap
tlst Sunday-schools at Mt. Vernon Springs
Aug. 22-27, next, is one that can be made
of Invaluable aid to the prosecution of our
church work. We believe that the Baptists
of this State have the best organized Sun
day echoqjs in many sections to be found
any where. Wejinow that those in this city
are superior toirnjcwe have ever seen. But
in many sections where good Sunday-schools
are organized the work is not conducted as
it might be. This is not through lack of
zeal or good intentions, but through inex
perience. In the chautauqua ideas and plans
may be set forth by those who have been
successful in the work; difficulties andob
stacles may be discussed and removed, and
a general plan of work may be determined
on which cannot but result in vast benefit
to all of our Sunday-echoo! workers,
experienced and inexperienced. More
than'this, it can be made a means of ex
citing a greater Interest in this important
department of the church, and of renewing
zsal and harmony in its prosecution. Our
Sunday schools should never be neglected.
In them are our future leaders, the boys and
girls who shall take our place in a few years,
and as surely as they are inclined aright to
day, we may have no fears of the result in
the future. We would be glad if all our
churches and Sunday-schools would send
good delegations to this first chautauqua, that
the brethren who have taken steps towards
making it permanent may be encouraged in
their work. It is worthy of cur heartiest
support.
A new educational campaign is upon us,
and it is, in our opinion, one that should be
hailed with delight by everyone interested
in the present and future of his country.
We speak of the campaign for students.
Years ago it was the question, with the
young man to obtain a rudimentary educa
tion that would warrant a further prosecu
tion of his studies, and to acquire sufficient
money to maintain him at a college. To
day the rivalry of our institutions in this
State and the United States for a strong
showing in numbers has almost driven these
questions from consideration, and now the
youth has only to consider if a college edu
cation is worth the time, and which college
to attend. We believe in educating our
boys at a minimum cost; we believe in an
education that bears the greatest good to
the greatest number, but we do not believe
in sacrificing scholarship for numbers. That
there is imminent danger of our educational
institutions doing the latter, through their
intense rivalry, is more than apparent. Let
them be careful. The quality of the stu
dents and the standard of scholarship of an
Institution are of frtr more value than mere
numbers and names.
Tm rwmlA vchn am wnndflrinc what tha
mhtattn nntvArsitv nan nmsihlv do with so
' J K " .T -
mnnb mnnAT ffflwnf thofiA nfionle are left in
Chicago, however,) will be enlightened by
the president's statement that no adequate
provision has been made for the general-expenses
of the university, or for the extraor
dinary expenses of its first years. " It needs
at once,", says the same high authority,
";$100,000 for books, $100,000 for apparatus,
$100,000 for the improvement of the quad
nn1aa ftinfl 000 for an flleetHfiftl and heat
ing plant," and $100,000 for miscellaneous
equipment." umcago cor, axammer.
We wonder what went with that $7,000,-
000 endowment, and what those enormous
exDensea are for. It seems to us that if an
institution cannot get along with $7,000,000
the money ought to be distributed among
our unpretentious colleges wno oo a greai
work with $200,000. The greater, the en
dowment the greater the cry for more seems
be true of many of our great universities,
fitrikaans that the money will be of far
more worth if distributed among' some of
our struggling colleges. We should strive
to cive all a rudimentary education first,
and let those who have ten years to spend
In pursuance or one subject pay tneir way.;
Wake Forest only asks for $20,000 before
next March. Surely she should have that.
'Talks About Law JTo. 14. '
VYltiDGZ ROBERT W. WINSTON.
CORPORATIONS.
A corporation is said to be an ' artificial
person." : So numerous and important have
corporations become, that all men should
have some general knowledge of them.
. First. How does a corporation come into
existence! In one of two wdvs : either by
the act of the Legislature, or else by the or
derof the Clerk-of a Superior Court. A
Clerk can grant any charter except to a rail
road company or to a bank. The Legisla
ture alone can grant charters to them ; but
the Legislature also has concurrent power to
incorporate any other company. ' x ;f
Let us suppose that Mr;: Cheery ble and
six of his wealthy friends wish to venture
in a banking scheme. Now they could, if
they wished, form a copartnership, and not
obtain any charter. - ,::
But there would be many objections ' to
this course. In the first place, if one of the
partners were to die, the concern might be
put to trouble with his estate. Again, a co
partnership is not permanent; it is a personal
affair, depending upon the mutual good-will
of the partners. And lastly and ma nly, if
a copartnership becomes involved in debt,
each partner is individually liable, that is to
say, his whole estate is responsible for the
debts of the firm generally. . , f
Not so with corporations " They ate to
be commended," said my Lord Coke, 'in
that they secure the best learned counsel.
They have a charter carefully drawn up, and
by the terms of that charter,' and by that
alone, they stand. ,
The Legislature of North Carolina have
endeavored, during many years, to grant no
bank charters .without inserting a clause
that the stockholders are individually liable,
at least to the amount of the stock that they
take. But many charters will be found in
which there is no such clause.
Take the case, then, of Mr. Cheery ble and
his six friends.' They obtain such "a charter,
and open the "Cheeryble Banking House."
The credit and reputed stability of the bank
attract a long line of deposits. Finally, the
day of reckoning ccmes, and the institution
closes its doors. The public find the mere
rind of the cheese; the heart has some time
since been consumed. Subsequent stock
holders Ipse all, and inndcent depositors
lose half, their deposits. Such things trans
pire around ns often. -'vr. 7 :
The stockholders of each national bank
are individually liable to creditors to double
the amount of stock taken. That is to say,
not only is the stock of each holder assets
for creditors, but also each stockholder must
pay an additioual sum, out of his own pock
et This is a great protection to the public.
Now, in the case supposed of the Cheery
ble Banking Company: The depositors might
lose half or more of all moneys deposited
with the bank, and yet the' owners of 'the
bank be not liable out of their own individ
ual funds for any part of such loss. There
might be cases in which the directors of the
bank, if guilty of fraud or imposition, or of
gross and , wilful carelessness in managing
the bank, would be individually liable to
creditors. Of this we will write in our next.
But would it not be fair, wise and just,
both to banking. institution and certainly
to the public, if the Legislature rjoto re
fuse to charter any more baAjLwreh
as rendered all stockholders Individually lia
ble to creditors? Would it not greatly in
crease deposits!
Banks are quite indispensable to com
merce. If it were felt and known by the
public generally that our banks were as se
cure as the old stocking tied ; up and care
fully deposited in the bottom of the old
'chist," many a rusty silver dollar and
many a quaint gold piece that have not seen
the light of day in years, would begin to
flow in, the sweeping channel of trade. ;. a
Indeed, one of the disastrous features of
the recent money panic will be loss of con
fidence and the corresponding hoarding of
money at home.
Be it said to the credit of the South that
we have better stood the financial panic
than any section of the Union.
The Recorder as a Help.
JBro. Bailey :l very much enjoy your ed
itorials as well as those healthful sermons,
and other religious articles from the breth
ren all over the State, but especially the let
ters from the foreign fields. Oh, that our
brethren could be induced to subscribe for
the Recorder, It would, I think, infuse
into them more zeal and energy for a holy
cause, ana prompt tnem to give more lib
erally of their means to the support of the
gospel. Besides, it is a great educator or tne
young, and should be taken by every parent
who is rearing a family of children. My
wife and children enjoy reading its .pages
very much.- Yours truly, , .
, A, J. BORDEAUX.
Kelly's, July 10, 1893. ;
Maggie Herring Monument.
Received from the W. M. S. of ' Oxford
Baptist church, $11.86 for Maggie Herring
monument . ' ' ' ,
All societies and individuals who wish to
contribute, will please do so at once. We
nave nearly seventy dollars, and nope to
make at least one hundred dollars before
October. ' v Lizzie Lowndes.
Yanceyville, July 13, 1893.' . v
The Chnroh of Christ and Her High Mission.
, It is becoming quite common to magnify
the society and minify the church. The so
ciety craze has about exhausted the alpha
bet, and yet the work of organizing goes on
without abatement ' Meanwhile, the church
is of sufficient breadth and elasticity to pros
ecute all the legitimate work of all the re
ligious societies now existing and yet to be
born. '
v I have not aught to say against any soci
ety within the church working with and
through the church for the furtherance of
the church's enterprises. These are nothing
more than committees carrying out the ex
pressed will of the church and her divine
Master. But the Lord's people should be
come entangled with no society that tends
to diminish their al, devotion, contribu
tions, and general efficiency as members of
the church of Christ t . '
There are several causes, besides the so
ciety craze, thathave led men to minify of
disparage the church.
The independence and responsibility of
the local churches with regard to all evan
gelistic work at home and abroad are, to
some extent, lost sight of. Boards, which
are creatures of the churches, should ever
remember that it is for the churches , to de
cide what to do, and raise the means where
with to do it, and for the boards to serve or
execute the will of the churches. Boards
and other bodies created by the churches
may suggest or advise, as well as execute,
but never dictate to the church. 1 am not
sure but that some evil has come from the
very phraseology used in the reports of the
8ecretariestsof our boards, wherein they
speak of what the boards have done. True,
the boards, as the servants of the churches,
have had supervision and direction under
the churches of the ' work entrusted to
them, but the work is the work of the
churches where rests the responsibility and
whence come the means of its accomplish
ment This is really what our worthy
secretaries mean, but I doubt not that many
fall to get the meaning.
"Another cause for disparagement of the
church is the vast number of religious soci
eties, all so widely differing in doctrine and
polity that they are compelled to live apart,
and all claiming, in spite, of their divergent
and antagonistic views, to be the true
church of Christ 1 For this evil I know no
other remedy than for every man to make
an honest endeavor to ascertaia from the
New-Testament what are the characteristics
of a church of Christ, and then to make his
religious organization conform to the divine
model or abandon it to. the owls and bats.
The true church was set np in Jerusalem
in the days of Christ and his apostles. Her
high mission is to bring ever increasing
praise and glory to God. ' Says Paul, "Now
unto him that is able to do exceeding abun
dantly above all that we ask or think, ac
cording to the power that worketh in us,
unto him be glory in the church by Christ
Jesus, throughout all ages, world without
end, amen." Eph. 3: 21. The nervous
language of the apostle seems to bend and
tremble under the great weight of this pro
phetic doxology. -vVjr-'-fv-r'SV'-C
In the New Testament, and there only,
can we , find out what the church is, and
what is her mission. It is there that we
learn that a church is a company of regene
rated persons baptized upon a profession of
faith in Christ, and associated together
under the law of Christ for mutual edifica
tion, and for extending the Messiah's king
dom throughout the worlds-all to the praise
of God's wondrous grace and wisdom and
glory. , .".'
Another cause for disparagement of the
church is the wicked desecration of many
of our houses of worship by transforming
them into lecture-rooms,s play-houses, balls
for secular-societies, &o. To such an ex
tent has this evil grown that in many places
the desire to draw and amuse has led to the
employment of the devil's avowed servants
to lead the musical part of God's service,
and to filling the pulpit with men that act
the monkey, deal in coarse wit and low an
ecdote, for the entertainment of fun-loving
audiences, to the great dishonor of God, the
dismay of Christians, and the damnation of
sinners.- '
Along with this evil is the kindred evil of
linking together worthy ends and wicked
means on the Jesuitical principle that the
end justifies the means. For example, I
quote the following extract from a Baptist
paper concerning an entertainment given in
behalf of a Baptist mission in a Southern
city: "The entertainment will be ' inter
spersed with tableaux, singing and dancing."
Dancing in the interest of a Baptist mis
sion I all under the management and su
pervision of some of the most prominent
Baptist ladies of the city 1 I am almost
prepared to read of a dance at a prayer
meeting, or a big ball at the close of a fu
neral, o'vf '.';r :K; :
One more evil that leads to the disparage
ment of the church is the wide tolerance of
ungodliness and wickedness among her
membership. In many churches men are
shamelessly guilty of habitual profanity,
licentiousness, drunkenness, &c, and have
no fear of arraignment or expulsion foriheir
crime. t
x No church should allow its house to be
used for any other purpose than that for
which it was erected to worship God, or
retain on her roll the names of those whose
daily life belies their profession of faith.
Taking into consideration all the forego-:
ing evils that to-day cursor our Christianity,
we need not wonder at the 'shocking an
nouncement of .the quadrangular debate in
Philadelphia, in which the cbnrch has been
entered as a competitor against three of the
political parties of America.
: We hive fallen upon evil times. Woe to
the Lord's people, if they do not speedily
awake to a .sense of their sins and their great
responsibilities '& :' :XB - v ; :
Let us have better, higher thoughts of
the church of Christ, and seek her Spiritual
improvement by personal effort to become
more Christ like and to restore the purity
and simplicity of worship that marked the
apostolic age. Our tendency to observe
days and cultivate a ritualistic worship pre
sages the decay of spirituality and godliness
among us.
Before I close this article, I wish to give
two reasons why we should give the church
our, best service of heart, hand, brain and
substance. "
I. The church is the only human organi
zation of divine origin in this world. God
hfrtiRPilf is tha Master Architect that built
this holy institution and perpetuates her ex
istence. , She is God's appointed means of
disclosing to his intelligences, especially to
the principalities and powers in heaTenly
S laces, or the holy angels tljat burn with
esire to look into these things, his mani
fold wisdom as displayed in the great work
of human redemption and salvation, accord-'
ing to his eternal purpose of grace. The
visible creation is but, a scaffolding erected
for rearing this heavenly structure, and
when the church shall have accomplished
God's gracious purpose in this world, the
scaffolding will be torn down and burnt up.
There are other religious organizations,
all extra scriptural some anti-scriptural,
but they are purely of human origin. As
sociations, conventions and boards are ex
pedients of human origin, and are to be en
couraged as very helpful agencies in our co
operative work so long as they seek io serve,
md not dominate, ihh churches, and no
longer. K
I L Another reason why we should love
the church more ardently and serve her
more faithfully is, that God himself gives
many proofs of his ' high estimate of the '
church his own workmanship. Here are
some of them : . . '
si. The co operation of the Trinity in rear
Axiff tha hfavenlv structure. the Father
electing, the Son redeeming, and the Spirit
sanctifying the material (sinful human be
ings) that enters into the building. ;
2. The vast expense incurred. Before
even one stone could be laid, the eternal Son
must be veiled in human flesh, made a curse
onder the divine lawr andJiin-pSeriDg for
lost and guilty men.
3. With his own hand God laid the corner-stone
of the church, the noblest, di
vinest piece of masonry known to earth or
heaven. God says, Behold, I lay in Zion
for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a
precious corner-stone, a sure foundation."
Isa. 28 : 16.
From the quarry of depraved humanity
God has chosen the stones that are to enter
into the building throughout all ,1he ages
East and to come. Children of wrath, dead
i trespasses and sins, vile as the inmates of
perdition, they who are thus chosen are re
generated by the Spirit and prepared for
their place in the spiritual temple. Says
Peter, "Ye also as lively stones, are built
up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to
offer tip spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to
God by Jesus Christ" 1 Pet 2: 5.
4. The church is God's home. ' His
dwelling place is in Zion." "This Is my
rest forever; here will I dwell." Like man,
the Lord loves the home of his adoption,
purchase and building. . Here are his treas
ures and the objects of bis affection and
parental solicitude.
5. He has set his beloved Son as Head
over thethuch ia all things. Woe to him
that dares assume headship over the church
of God He is antichrist,-be he pope or
king, that takes Christ's place in the temple
of God and lords iff over God's heritage.
; 6. As law-giver in Zion, God has given to
his church all the laws she needs, adapting
them to all times, places and circumstances.
Knowing the folly of human wisdom, he has
left no legislation for his church to do.
Therefore, let not his people be guilty of the
folly of making, amending or repealing any
of God's laws governing his church. As to
the positive ordinances of the church bap
tism and the supper we are to keep them
just as they were given to us- To take
from; or add to them, or in any way to
modify them, is base disloyalty to our King
"End Law giver. " .. .
7. God is so jealous for the welfare of his .
church that he calls and qualifies the men
wuulu juts purceo uver me vuuiuu txa uuuci-
shepherds and preachers of the everlasting
gospel. All others that attempt to fill the
place are but sounding brass and tinkling
cymbals, whatever may be their eloquenca
or intellectuality.. v ; ;
8.' God has shown his high estimate of the
church by his loving special providence over
her interests through all the centuries of her
existence. : Christ has promised that tto
f:ates of hell shall never prevail against 1 r.
Ie has fully compiled with that proni .
Never has the day yet come since the f J" ' -ing
of the church in Jerusalem, ia r. '- '- !
the church was. not witnessing for C'
somewhere in th world. She will c : '
to witness for him while tho woili f
spite of the rage of men, the i
dels, the edicts of rulers, ml t'
martyrdom. For God is wit'i !;
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